This doesn’t look like Reddit, although i am aware that the main instance of Lemmy has an interface that looks similar to old Reddit.

Your home piefed.zip has that theme too actually https://old.piefed.zip/

Although that theme probably doesn't support all of the features, it should mostly work

Welcome! What are you interested in? I'll give you some good starting communities to subscribe to:

![email protected]

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Just open each one and click the Join button in the sidebar

Greetings, traveler!

Some slightly more technical tips if you don't mind:

If you can't find a community in your instance, it may simply have not propagated yet. In such possibility, you may want to look it up using http://catalog.catodon.rocks/ or https://lemmyverse.net/, and then use Piefed's dedicated community finding search (can't remember the path nor check now, sorry) with the community handle (community@instance, like here which is [email protected]).

If Piefed now allows it, you may also want to follow hashtags. Helps filling some niches not filled by communities.

If someone's not on the fediverse, or bridged through @[email protected], but are on platforms with RSS, you can follow them with @[email protected] or (if your instance's sufficiently up to date) by making a community and adding their RSS feeds to the RSS tab of the community's dashboard.

Also, I second the comment by @[email protected], that you should use the block features as you see needed, so you can better curate your feeds.

Huzzah! Always good to have more folks. Welcome to the Fediverse. I'm also a former Redditor.

Lessee. Some info that might be useful to a former Redditor:

• Around here, it's possible (and pretty common) to have different communities with the same name on different instances.
• I personally set my default sort/filter to "New"/"Subscribed". Things (instances, communities, users) I never want to see, I block. Communities I want to see every post from, I subscribe to. When I log on, I catch up on the "every post in this community" kind of posts and then switch to "New"/"All" and just browse. The latter's a great way to find new communities.
• It's worth noting that there are some instances well known for being full of Stalin/CCP/DPRK apologists. Particularly lemmy.ml.
• The Fediverse tends to be kinda anti-Reddit. A lot of us left Reddit because Reddit did enshittification thing. (I personally left during the Reddit API pricing change incident.)
• The Fediverse also tends to be quite anti-generative-AI, save in pro-AI echo chamber communities.
• Not all content that you run across on Lemmy is from Lemmy. Sometimes you'll see a post that actually started out as a Mastodon post or a post on Snac or something.
• Hope you like beans. ;) (Were you on Reddit for the "The Narwal Bacons at Midnight" weirdness? Beans are kindof the equivalent Lemmy in-joke.)

That's probably enough for now. Just things I learned since coming here. Again, we're glad to have you!

My personal philosophy is to peruse all and block any communities you are 100% uninterested in or are unworkable (so for me its memes, sports, and non english). Block users who you would not want to hang with in real life or otherwise do things that make your experience not the way you would like it. I compare it to an mmo chat. A few blocks really improves the experience. piefed has keyword blocking if there is something that becomes popular that you just don't care to fill up your feed. Think in terms of not wanting to miss what you want to see for it being buried in what you are seeing.

Welcome! I hope you'll like it here.

If you have iOS, download Voyager, or you can go to https://wefwef.app/ in a web browser. Pull up the Communities sidebar, then click the 3 dots in the top right corner and you’ll see a Starter Pack option. That will get you subbed to some good communities off the bat.